MEXICO CITY — A split in the leadership of Mexico’s violent Zetas cartel has led to the rise of Miguel Angel Trevino Morales, a man so feared that one rival has called for a grand alliance to confront a gang chief blamed for a new round of bloodshed in the country’s once relatively tranquil central [...]
ROMA, Texas (AP) — Floating 2,500-feet (762-meters) above scrub-covered U.S. ranchland near the Mexico border, the payload of high-tech cameras onboard a balloon being used by the Border Patrol can easily see a cluster of reporters and the make, model and color of their vehicles a couple of miles away. In Iraq or Afghanistan, where [...]
PERRY, Iowa — Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann on Saturday signed a pledge to push for construction of a fence along the entire length of the border with Mexico, raising the issue of undocumented immigration in an Iowa town where about one third of the residents are Hispanic. Bachmann also renewed her attacks on the immigration [...]
The prediction of Arctic weather this winter has led experts to warn about another major spike in home heating oil prices. The fear is that vulnerable people like the elderly living on their own might freeze to death if they can’t get their oil tanks filled because of the cost or because delivery lorries can’t [...]
MEXICO CITY — Mexican President Felipe Calderon said Friday that the violence-plagued Gulf coast state of Veracruz had been left in the hands of the brutal Zetas drug cartel. Calderon has complained in the past that previous governments allowed Mexico’s cartel problems to grow and didn’t do enough to stop them. But he hasn’t previously [...]
Architects have designed an incredible 65-storey ‘earth-scraper’ which plunges 300 metres below ground. The stunning upside down pyramid in the middle of Mexico City is designed to get around height limits on new buildings in the capital. The subterranean building will have 10 storeys each for homes, shops and a museum, as well as 35 [...]
MEXICO CITY — Mexican marines in the violent border state of Tamaulipas found the body of the alleged top accountant for the Gulf Cartel drug trafficking network, who had apparently been shot to death, the navy said Wednesday. A statement said the marines found the body of Cesar Davila Garcia in a house Tuesday after [...]
VERACRUZ, Mexico — Mexican officials say 10 more bodies have been found in what appears to be more bloodshed in the battle between rival cartels for control of drug trafficking in the port city of Veracruz. The discoveries raise the number of deaths since Sept. 20 to at least 75 as the relatively new Jalisco [...]
MEXICO CITY — Archaeologists found a round Aztec ceremonial platform studded with stone carvings of serpent heads at Mexico City’s Templo Mayor ruin, raising hopes in the search for an emperor’s tomb, authorities said Thursday. No Aztec ruler’s tomb has ever been located and researchers have been on a five-year quest to find a royal [...]
MEXICO CITY — A relatively new drug gang is responsible for killing at least 67 people whose bodies were found over the course of a couple of weeks in the Gulf coast state of Veracruz, Mexican authorities said Friday. Marines arrested eight members of the Jalisco New Generation drug gang Thursday, navy spokesman Jose Luis [...]
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